Mark Carney meets the battleground of question period [Video]

One of Mark Carney’s greatest advantages over the last five months — the first five months of his political career — has seemingly been his ability to play the part of the adult in the room. 

One of the defining characteristics of the House of Commons is its ability to make grown men and women act like children.

Carney’s arrival in the House of Commons, as both a newly elected MP and the prime minister of Canada, might thus set up a certain test of wills.

“I would like to welcome the prime minister to his first official question period,” said Andrew Scheer, the interim leader of His Majesty’s Official Opposition, on Wednesday after the Speaker announced that the time had arrived for oral questions. “This is where democracy lives and this is where we provide rigorous scrutiny on every word he says and every dollar he spends on behalf …